Tick Horse

In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your price. Philip Roy answered a reader who wanted to d...

Favourites win around 30 per cent of races and lose the other 70 — which is why betting every favourite in Australian horse racing grinds you down. A writer going by Mr Money took that apart for Pr...

You can back winners all year in Australian horse racing and still finish the year behind — that is a staking problem, not a selection problem. Philip Roy wrote about it for Practical Punting in Ma...

Framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing means putting a price on a horse yourself — estimating its percentage chance, just as a bookmaker does. Denton Jardine wrote this one for ...

A bookmaker's price is only an opinion — which is where framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing starts. Denton Jardine wrote this one for Practical Punting in August 1995, and he...

Ten per cent profit on turnover would make most professional punters in Australian horse racing ecstatic — and most, in fact, profit closer to five. Rick, who fits out hotels and offices for a livi...

Fourteen years ago we revealed the details of an approach that used a "tick test" as a simple way of finding the likely best chances in a race. Despite all the changes in racing since then, that "...

Show me the way to go home! The words of the old song can be applied to finding winners. When we look at a field of runners and try to work out the winner, we are looking for the way "home". The ...

The formline grid can be a most useful addition to your handicapping armoury for the dogs. All you do is go through the form and allot ‘ticks’ for each of the listed factors (see the grid below). ...

The formline grid can be a most useful addition to your handicapping armoury for the dogs. All you do is go through the form and allot ‘ticks’ for each of the listed factors (see the grid below). ...

  The study of form is the essential ingredient to becoming a successful punter. All professional punters learn to study form because they know that without it, they are like a carpenter without ...

Understanding harness racing form can be a tricky task - all those mile rates and class changes. My point is, don't concern yourself too much with the intricacies but concentrate on some plain bu...